"rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying"

Please help me if you can. I don't know what I may have done. I've had my iPhone for almost 2 yrs & my iPad forabout 3 months & they both seem to have gone mad!!!!!!
Every time I try to send an email lately it won't send & I get the following message:

Cannot send mail
A copy has been place in your outbox. The recipient ........... was rejected by the server because it does not allow relaying"

I really don't know what this means or how I can rectify it.

I would appreciate any help you can give.

Ps I am not a computer minded person so plain 'talk' would be appreciated

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This has started on my iPad 3. I arranged a new email address, and after a week of use I was receiving the same message.

As the other posts were some eighteen months ago, has a resolution been found?

Please help!!

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This is a email server issue. Whomever is providing the email address does not allow the relaying of emails and/or you are trying to send an email via a different SMTP server than the one linked to your email address. Some information about your iPad set-up in regards to emails would be good.

This is a email server issue. Whomever is providing the email address does not allow the relaying of emails and/or you are trying to send an email via a different SMTP server than the one linked to your email address. Some information about your iPad set-up in regards to emails would be good.

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Thanks for the answer.

I have set up my new email address within Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendars>Add Account and set it up according to the instructions provided. This is a "personalised" address as purchased through Hover.com, a service of Tucows Inc. I have also posted a question on their site and currently wait a reply.

The service worked perfectly for a few days, and feeling confident I advised all my friends of the change in email address (I have left Hotmail after 10 years!) I use both iPad and W7 PC, and the latter is set up on Mozilla Thunderbird, where I am receiving the same problem, so I don't believe it is specific to iOS.

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